Monastic Life
The Saints of the Athonite School – Saint indirectly associated with the Monastery
Georgios Martzelos
4 November 2011
Also to be included among the saints of the Vatopaidi Monastery are those o... 
Saint Philotheus Coccinus, Patriarch of Constantinople
Georgios Martzelos
4 November 2011
Coccinus was one of the most distinguished and most prolific bishops of the...
Saint Sabbas the Younger, the ‘fool for Christ’s sake’
Georgios Martzelos
4 November 2011
This St Sabbas was born around 1283 in Thessaloniki, the son of pious paren...
The Martyr Saint Cosmas the Protos
Georgios Martzelos
4 November 2011
St Cosmas was a brother of the Monastery and lived at the ‘Kareon’ Skete. H...
Saint Euthymius, Abbot of the Monastery, and the twelve martyr monks with him
Georgios Martzelos
4 November 2011
St Euthymius was Abbot of the Monastery in the second half of the 13th cent...
The Typikon of the monastery
4 November 2011
The spiritual labour of the day in its attempt to acquire the divine virtue...
Saint Ioakeim Pappoulakis
Georgios Martzelos
29 October 2011
The Blessed Ioakeim, surnamed Pappoulakis, may be included in the catalogue...
Saint Macarius Macres
Georgios Martzelos
29 October 2011
Macarius was born in 1386 in Thessaloniki of a devout and distinguished fam...
The Monastery’s Saints – Introduction
Georgios Martzelos
29 October 2011
In a monastery such as Vatopaidi, with so rich a history and spiritual trad...
Prayer in the Monastery
29 October 2011
Prayer usually takes place in the katholikon at the times of common prayer ...
